BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 24 September 1869, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from our. own correspondent.) W Ellington, Friday. Auckland, Sept. 20. Flour LI 6. Four thousand ounces of gold from the Thames has been exported by the Prince Alfred. Mr O’Conner reports favorably from the Upper Thames. He threatens to prosecute for libel the papers charging him with Fenianism. The Virginian Claim at Coromandel has yielded nugget specimens surpassing anything yet found on the Thames diggings. The great fire on the 20th at Quick’s coach factory destroyed property valued at L 6,000. It was supposed to have arisen from the spontaneous combustion of damp hay. The property was uninsured. There is no important news from the Thames. A mining journal was published on the IStii inst. The election of Superintendent causes great excitement. Poverty Bay. Fires, supposed to be signal fires, have been seen on the ranges. A spy was captured by Captain Westrupp’s party. Government telegrams from Napier yesterday were received, stating that Mr Locke had arrived at Te Havoto with news from Taupo. He reports that our Forces are preparing to attack Te Kooti. The arrival of the Wanganui Natives has done this. The Natives have handed over the whole of the Kaimanawa country by deed to the Government. The block includes the country from Taupo to Napier, and the Patea track. It is an enormous extent of country, including all that which is reported to be auriferous.